It's So Amazing: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families-By

This book was like the encyclopedia about everything related to sex and growing up. It had chapters about reproduction, gender, growing up, female parts, male parts, the egg, the sperm, sex, love, pregnancy, growing up/staying healthy, the fetus, multiples, birth, DNA, birth/adoption, keeping safe, HIV/AIDS, and babies. As you can see it discusses everything. The book is kind of set up like a graphic novel, which I thought was a good way to set it up since it's directed at kids. It made it more understandable, easy to follow, and fun to read. There are two characters that guide you through it, a parrot, who wants to find out all the answers and a bumblebee that is kind of dreading the subject. The narrates ask questions about the certain topics throughout the whole book and they make it fun and interesting. The pictures are drawn but are very detailed and leaves nothing out. One page that really stood out to me was the drawings of actual size fetuses as certain stages. They were smaller then I thought. Some of the pictures would probably make kids uncomfortable or embarrassed because of all the detail. This book is very accurate. I plan to teach in a younger classroom, so I don't know if I would just have this book laying on the shelf but I think that if students had certain questions, I would definitely recommend it to them or their parents to help education them on their curious questions. I learned about sex and the body in 4th grade and I think that we were barely mature enough to handle the topic but it's when boys and girls started having crushes and getting curious, so I think it was an opportune time but I don't think you can teach it any earlier then that. I think if children come to school with a question like that you need to speak to the parents and let them know what their child is wondering. Kids are always curious no matter what age but I think it's how detailed you get with them in your answer, is the appropriate way to go about it. I think parents should explain stuff that they want their children to know anytime before 4th grade, when their teacher is probably not going to have a class discussion on sex, but let them know that those questions are going to be expected from their children and it is not weird or unusual.